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. 2014 Jul 29;8:530. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00530

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics [mean(SD)] for properties of the ambiguous and unambiguous target words and sentences.

Property Ambiguous Unambiguous
All Strong biased Weak biased Balanced All
TARGET WORD N 92 32 27 27 92
Frequency (log-trans.) 3.61 (1.01) 3.66 (1.16) 3.82 (1.01) 3.24 (0.81) 3.63 (0.93)
No. letters 4.72 (1.16) 4.50 (1.02) 5.04 (1.43) 4.56 (0.89) 4.76 (1.08)
No. meanings 1.92 (0.90) 1.81 (0.64) 1.89 (0.97) 2.15 (1.10) 1.09 (0.32)
No. senses 10.1 (5.60) 9.91 (4.79) 10.4 (7.03) 10.0 (5.06) 4.90 (3.09)
SENTENCE LEVEL Length (seconds) 2.97 (0.29) 2.96 (0.25) 3.03 (0.30) 2.91 (0.34) 2.97 (0.31)
No. syllables 16.5 (1.87) 16.3 (1.82) 16.9 (1.92) 16.1 (1.69) 16.4 (1.91)
No. words 12.5 (1.23) 12.6 (1.34) 12.4 (1.18) 12.6 (1.15) 12.5 (1.23)
Naturalness rating 5.46 (0.62) 5.37 (0.68) 5.60 (0.61) 5.40 (0.56) 5.80 (0.61)